Fish lure



April 22, 1941.

FISH LURE Filed July 28, 1939 A TTORNEY},

Patented Apr. 22, 1941 FFICE nsn was William Slepica, Seattle, Wash. Application Jul as, 1939, Serial No. 2871155 4 Claims.

This invention relates to fish lures and especially to'that class of lure, commonly referred to as plugs, which are intended to simulate the appearance and the action of minnows and the like upon which the larger game fish such, for example, as salmon and bass feed. The common practice with this type of lure is to rig the same with a two sets of gang-hooks, one suspended from the tail portion and the other from the belly portion oi the plug body.

A principal object of the present invention is to improve the manner of rigging the plug for eliminating weaknesses inherent in substantially all prior plugs, and it is a further and particu lar object to produce an advanced design which adapts itself most eflectively to the advanced rigging for obtaining, in the travel of the lure through the water, an action suggestive of the movements of a minnow, and especially a wounded minnow, more realistically than heretofore The novel features peculiar to my invention and by means of which the foregoing broadly recited objects are attained will appear in the course of the following description, and claims, the invention consisting in the novel form and in the adaptation and arrangement of the parts hereinafter described and claimed. I

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view illustrating a flsh lure constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an underside plan View thereof with the gang-hooks detached.

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal vertical section on the also with the hooks demedian line of the plug, tached; and

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line H of Fig. 3. i

The lure itself, denoted generally by the numeral I, is desirably produced from wood or other buoyant material shaped to a substantially cylinpromote the eillciency of the plug as a fish lure, it will of course be apparent that other shapes of plug bodies might, with satisfactory results, be employed in conjunction with the hereinafter described rig ing.

Referring now to the rigging by which the two gang-hooks denoted by H and I! are applied to the lure, the former of these hooks being conventionally hung by a ring I! from one eye of an ordinary swivel II and the other gang-hook by a ring I! from the eye of a swivel it, it will be seen that I provide, as a socket for the rear swivel, a horizontal bore II in the tail portionof the body and, as a socket for the front swivel, a vertical bore I! in the belly part of the body, the latter bore traversing a longitudinal hole which is drilled diagonally through the body from the rear socket to a cavity is which lies above the drical form for the greater part of its length with the tail portion tapered. The front or head end is likewise given a taper and is relatlvelyblunt with facing cheeks 6-1 sloping laterally from each side of a median nose I, the nose being porbeagled in that I slightly undercut the same. Below the flaring head is a metal lip 8 of a width approximating the diameter of the body and of a length to have the forwardly inclined tip lie on r or proximate to a prolongation of the rectilineal line of the nose. While these described surface characteristics of the plug, when employed with a line, as It, which engages the plug immediately above the upper limits of the nose, are found to nose oi the plug. Fitting this drilled hole and inserted from the rear oi the plug with its terminal end attached to the forward eye of the rear swivel is a wire snood 20, the snood, following insertion, having its forward terminus turned upon itself to produce a line tie 2 I. The shank of this snood, in its traversal of the vertical bore, is

caused to pass through the upper eye of the forward swivel ll. 22 indicates a screw which desirably is threaded in the plug to pass through the swivel tie at the rear end of the snood for securing the latter against longitudinal shifting movements relative to the plug body; l

The described rigging, in a manner which is believed to be apparent, operates to transmit stresses from either of the gang-hooks to the snood and therefrom directly to the line, an arrangement which precludes loss of a hooked flsh due to the splitting of the plug and, moreover, minimizes thetendency to develop a split under the twisting stress of a. strike due to the swiveled suspension of the hooks.

What I claim, is:

1. In a fish lure, in combination, a plug body having a vertical bore in the belly portion and a horizontal bore in the tail portion, a wire snood carried in traversing relation to said belly bore diagonally through the body of the plug from the tail bore to the upper limits of the head and providing a line tie at its forward end, a hookcarrying swivel fitted in the tail bore and engaging the rear end of the snood, and a hook-carrying swivel fitted in the belly bore and characterized in that the same provides an eye at each end of which the upper eye receives the snood therethrough and the lower eye engages the hook.

2. In a fish lure, in combination, a plug body having a. vertical bore in the belly portion, a wire mood carried in traversing relation to said belly bore longitudinally throuah the body of the plug and providins a line tie at its forward end and on eye at its rear end. o hook-engaging swivel connected with said eye of the mood. and s hookengaging swiveiflttedinthebellyboreondchsr acterized in that the some provides in eye at each end of which the upper eye receives the mood therethrouzh and the lower eye ensues the boob) 3, The defined fish lure of claim 2 having h screw working in the plug body sndpossin: through the eye otthe sno'od ior securint the 'n lond'the 4.Insiishlure.incombination,aplubody having the tail end belly portions bored to provide sockets, swivels providing a. can trsi horrel to a diameter correth'edismeter or thebodysockets and iittins in the letter, sold swivels hsving an eye at and intheir application to the sockets one'ot said eyes within the body of the other eye externslly oi the latter. common to both of sold swivels proiected through-the body oube plus and enzasinz the both swivels for securing the plus-housed'eye swivels to the PM. d hooks suspended from theexposedeyeoteochottheswivels.

snood against shitting movements relative to'the l5 body.

. 7 WILLIAM SLEPICA. 

